The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-10-06
FOREIGN.

| Serious bush fires are burning throughout
| Ontario. In Ottawa objects half block
away cannot be seen. Sixteen families in
| Quyon village have been burned out and
| farmers about Pembroke have lost every
thing.
Bush fires have been raging around Mon
| treal for several days, and the city is filed
with smoke Navigation has been stopped,
even the ferryboats being discontinued. The
people in the country about the burning dis
| tricts are suffering terribly Many of them
have had to bring their cattle leagues to get
water.
Sixteen out of so prisoners tried for arson,
at Riga, Russia, have been sentenced to ST.
! IBERIA for life.
A shocking affair has just been reported
| from the island of Orleans, near Quebec,
Ont Friday four little children belonging
| to the family of farmer living close to the
| camping ground where the Dominion Artil-
| lery Association held its annual competition
few weeks ago went out to pick up a few
pieces of shells. They came across large
shell which had not exploded after being
set to work to dissect the fuse, and applied a
lighted match to it, the result being that the
shell exploded, killing three of the children
instantly, and injuring the fourth so seriously
that its life is despaired of. The mother has
been unconscious ever since, and her recov-
cry is doubtful.
Dr. Tanner in response to the demands Of
| a crowd made speech from the balcony Of
his hotel at Fermoy. He denounced the ac
ton of the police at Mitchellstown and the
! trial of Editor O'Brien, when the police
charged upon the crowd and a melee was
the result The crowd stoned the police many
of whom received severe injuries. The po-
lice used their batons and injured IA persons
who were nearly all conveyed to the hospital.
The Fermoy police contradict FIR. O'Cal-
laghan's statement that they attacked the
crowd without warning. They assert that
they were pelted with stones before reaching
the crowd On the advice of the magistrate,
the police tried to induce the crowd to dis
perse in peaceable manner, and they did
not use their batons until they had been
severely stoned.
The Paris Gaulois publishes report,
which, however, it does not credit, to the
effect that the remains of Napoleon I. have
been stolen from the tomb in Hotel des In
valides and cast to the winds
In Belfast mob wrecked an inn and pelt-
ed the police with stones. The police were
REINFORCED and order was restored.
The British ship New City, from Bombay
for Havre, arrived at Falmouth, Eng, and
reported having collided with and sunk the
steamer Cecilia. The ships jibboom and
headgear are gone.
The chief in the recently discovered frauds on
English life insurance companies is German
barod, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Won Schuerer.
He is naturalized American, who married
a wealthy American lady residing in London.
He deserted his wife and fed to Paris with
another woman There he met Dr. Castelnau
and organized the swindle Schuerer alb.
seconded to Germany with the lions share of
the spoils.
A French fishing boat has been sunk in the
British channel by collision. Her identity
! has not yet been ascertained but it is known
that 10 Of the persons aboard were drowned.
It is reported that NJ. Grevy will shortly
resign the French presidency.
The Sultan of Morocco is i'll with typhoid
2 faver.
A portrait mistaken for one Of Lord LAM
,, downe was smashed by a crowd Of several
hundred Irishmen at Quebec.
Charles Page, who raised checks on the
( Jacques Cartier bank and the Bank Of Mon
. treal to the amount of s35, 900, has been sen.
fenced to IA years imprisonment.
9 A Chinese transport has been wrecked or
D one of the Pescadores islands. Three hun
9 dred soldiers and the captain and crew, witt
| the exception of one man, were drowned.
A dispatch from Paris says that Germany
: intends to largely compensate the widow o.
Bignon, the gamekeeper who was shot by
German frontier guards. An hour before thu
shooting occurred, President Grevy received
an autograph letter from Emperor William
declaring that the peace of Europe was tb'
thief solicitude of his declining years.
The Roman police have seized the Pope
jubilee Medals which are inscribed "Pap,
Leo XIII, Pontifex ct Rex 1t is expectes
d that the Vatican will protest against the seiz
/ ure, and will point out that the law of guar
a antees recognized the Popes right to the it'll
= Of sovereign.
Advices from Honolulu, per steamer Cit,
q Of Sydney, from China and the Hawaiian
q islands state that at the election held Sept !.
A all the members of the Goth House. with per
haps the exception of two representatives In
: remote districts, were elected on the platform
s of the reform party, supporting the new con
/ stitution and ministry.
: The British steamer Matthew Cay has beel
4 wrecked off Cape Finisterre Ten person
= were drowned.
IS Mrs Otto Goldschmidt Jenny land ha
% had a stroke Of general paralysis Her mint
] b unimpaired.